Reform has pledged to “stop the boats” in its first 100 days in power as Nigel Farage launches his party’s manifesto in a run-down community centre in Merthyr Tydfil in Wales.
The party has set out a four-point plan on tackling illegal immigration that would involve leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), with zero illegal immigrants being resettled in the UK, a new government department for immigration, and migrants crossing the Channel in small boats being returned to France.
Mr Farage said in the foreword to the party’s manifesto: “The Tories have broken Britain. Labour will bankrupt Britain. A vote for either is a vote for more dishonesty and defeat.”
Nigel Farage said he intended to use the 2024 general election as a springboard to fight to be prime minister at the next national contest in 2029.
The leader of Reform UK said he wanted July 4 to result in his party having a “bridgehead” in the House of Commons.
He would then use that to build a “big national campaigning movement around the country over the course of the next five years for genuine change”.
Asked if it was his intention to therefore be vying to be PM at the next election, Mr Farage told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: “Yes, absolutely.”
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